Crate-stacking guide



Dec. 7 1926.

H. H. GERDING ET AL CRATE S TACKING GUIDE Filed May 19. 1924 Patentecl Dec. 7, 1926.

UNTE STTES PATENT GFFIC HERBERT H. GER-DING', OF NEVPORT, ANI) EDWARD A. GERDING, OF FRT THOMAS, KENTUCKY.

CRATE-S'I'ACKNG GUIDE.

Application filed May 19,

Our invention relates to reinforced crates or boxes, and more especially to crates for carrying and storing mill: bottles. Its object is to provide more substantial stacking guides, more securely attached to, and more effectively reinforcing, the cornersv of the crate. Other objects will appear in the course of the ensuing description.

We attain these objects by the device illustrated, for example, in the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 is a general perspective view of a millr-bottle crate embodying oui` invention;

Fig. 2 is a detail perspective view of one of the staoking guides;

Fig. 8 is a similar view of one of the lower corner plates; and

Fig. 4 is a partial Vertical longitudinal section of one end of the crate.

The Crate comprises opposite walls 1 with members 2 interposed between the inner faces of the end parts of the walls 1; these walls 1 and 2 being upright and the top and bottom of the crate being open as is common in milk-bottle crates. The interior of the crate has transverse webmeans 3 'with apertures at to receive bottles; and the end members 2 have handle apertures 5.

At the Corners of the crate the web means Z- preferably has its corner portions omitted, leaving diagonal edge parts 6 on these members 3, and triangular spaces between these and the adjacent interior sides of the meeting walls 1 and 2. Angle bars 7 extend up and down along these interior sides and through these spaces, with their members titting against the respective walls l and 2 and areferably with their edges engaged by the diagonal edge parts 6 of the web members 3, which thus hold these bars 7 firmly in the corners against the walls 1 and 2. These angle bars 7 end atthe tops and bottoms of the walls 1 and 2.

At the bottoms are corner' plates 8, each comprising upright sides 9 to fit against the outside faces of the walls 1 and 2, and bottom fianges 10 extending in from the sides 9 under the edges of these walls. Rivets 11 extend through the walls 1 and 2 from the corner plate sides 9 to the respective legs of the angle bars 7 thus securing these angle bars 7 against endwise movement relative to the walls l and 2 not only by the engagement of the rivetsi 11 in the walls, but by the engagement of the corner plate fianges 10 1924. Serial NO. 714,336.

against the bottom edges of the walls, as well as securing. the corner plates S to the walls.

- At the tops are the staelring guides 12, each comprising a body part 18 of anglebar cross-section inwardly offset and reduced in its upper part 111; with a diagonal flange 15 from leg toileg of the cross-section at the top of`this part 1a. rl`his upper part 14 is wider than the lower part and has the wings 16 extending from its lateral terminal lower portions outward at right angles to the adjacent sides of the part 14 and at right angles to each other7 with extensions 17 eX- tending down from the outer ends of these wings 16 and curving laterally toward each other so that their lower ends are opposite the respective sides of the lower unreduced part of the body 13. These guides 12 preferably are formed with their wings 16 and extensions 17 integral with the main parts 13 by slitting the wings and extensions apart from the sides and bottoms of the main parts The stackingV guides 12 have their lower body parts 13 inside the upper ends of'the angle bars 7 and their inset upper parts 14 projected above the crate walls; the wings 16 lying across the tops of the walls with their eXt-ensions 17 down along t he outsides of the walls l and 2. Rivets 18 from these extensions 17, through the walls 1 and 2 and angle bars 7 into the body parts 13, secure the guides 12 down on the walls and hold the angle bars 7 to these walls, against endwise movement relative thereto; being reinforced in this latter function by the wings 16 against the wall edges. Also, the bottom corner plates 8 and top guides 12 both reinforce the attachment of the walls together by suitable means such as the nails 19 in Fig. 1.

Modifications may occur, and while we have set forth a certain construction specifically, we do not wish to be understood as being limited to such precise disclosure, but having thus fully described our invention, what we claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

1. In combination with wall members meeting to form a corner' of a crate7 an angle bar fitting inside said corner, and a stacking lguide straddling said walls and said angle bar and fixed to said angle bar inside and outside said walls.

A Crate staeking guide comprising a body ot angnlar cross-section With a guide part at one end and. Wings extending' outside said angular cross-section with extensions along said body toward the opposite end thereof.

3. A Crate stacking guide eonsisting oi' a single piece of Sheet material bent into angular cross-section and having lateral portions with lower end parts extending` towarcl each other, said lateral portions being` bent out- \\"ardly, 'forining' Wings, and said Wings having' their terminal portions hent downwardly ao that said endrparts lie across lower parts ot the respective members of the angular cross-Section.

A Crate staeking guide consisting` of a single piece of Sheet material bent into angular cross-section, inwardly offset and rednced in its upper part, and having lateral portions of its .tower part hent ontward at right angles to the adjacent sides of the top part and at right anglee to each other, forming wings, andrhaving the terminal portions ot ihesen'ingjs hent downwarclly and curv-' inz' inwardi'v toward eaeh other So that their lower ends are opposite the respective sidee ot the lower nnredneed part of said. guide, these laat inentioned sidee and said lower end parts of said wings coinprising means Wherehy said Sides and said Wings may'ho secnred together through respective Walls of a Crate.

HERBERT H. GERDING. EDVARD A. GERDING. 

